College teachers across Sindh boycotted academic activities on Monday following a call by the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, intensifying a protest over long-pending demands related to promotions, staffing, and allowances.
SPLA President Prof Munawwar Abbas announced that the association will stage a sit-in outside Bilawal House in Karachi on February 12 to press the provincial government to address its demands. He said teachers had been protesting for more than a month but received no meaningful response from the Sindh government or the College Education Department.
The association’s key demands include the implementation of the five-tier formula, convening departmental promotion committees to fill thousands of vacant lecturer posts, holding Board-I and Board-II meetings, and revising sanctioned staff strength based on student-teacher ratios.
SPLA is also calling for new colleges to be established in line with provincial needs. Other demands focus on fair transfer and posting policies, immediate hiring of non-teaching staff, improved college infrastructure, furniture, and laboratory equipment, and the provision of textbooks for computer science, commerce, and arts subjects.
Teachers are also seeking merit-based appointments, restoration of frozen allowances, and payment of MPhil and PhD allowances in line with court rulings. Prof Abbas said repeated meetings with college authorities failed to yield results, leaving teachers with no option but to escalate their protest.
Office-bearers from Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur joined the boycott and reaffirmed their demands.
